Subject: Re: Error when cloning gc'ed repository

From: Andre Loker <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:02:35 +0100

Andre Loker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> $ git clone git@theserver:the/repository.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /e/Temp/dr/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 1396, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (654/654), done.
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> fatal: early EOFs:  47% (657/1396)
> fatal: index-pack failed

To answer the question myself: it seems that it is a problem with 
openssh under cygwin 1.7.1. I found a similar problem here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email-masked]/msg103749.html

The proposed workaround is to use plink instead of openssh. I tried it 
and so far it seems to work. It's not as nice as openssh, but at least 
it's a workaround until the issue is solved.

Kind Regards,
Andre